Bureaucrat Meteor Package

The bureaucrat processes your forms and returns tidy objects.

Installation

meteor add meteorhubdotnet:bureaucrat

Usage

Bureaucrat processes forms by using the name attribute of the form inputs. Make sure that all the fields in your form have a name attribute otherwise they will not be processed.

A sample use of Bureaucrat would be when a form is submitted:

HTML

<template name="myFormTemplate">
	<form>
		<input name="firstName" value="Joe" />
		<input name="lastName" value="Smith" />
		<input type="submit" />
	</form>
</template>

JS

Template.myFormTemplate.events({
	'submit form': function(evt){
		var formObject = $(evt.target);
		var formData = Bureaucrat.getFormData( formObject );
		////////console.log( formData );
	}
});

The value of formData should look like:

{
	"firstName": "Joe",
	"lastName": "Smith"
}

Radio buttons and checkboxes

Radio buttons and checkboxes will return a boolean value.

Array of values

If multiple inputs have the same name attribute, an array will be returned with all the values for those inputs.

ENJOY!